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When to bring camellias inside

Enter a German postcode. We show when camellias should come inside: from the cold limit in expert sources and the night-time lows where you are.

Where are your pots?

Average for Germany

Bring in by

12 December

In 9 out of 10 years it did not get colder than −10 °C (14 °F) before this. On average from 15 January.

Based on past records, not a forecast · Data: Deutscher Wetterdienst (CC BY 4.0)

Data: Deutscher Wetterdienst, daily minimum temperatures 1991–2020, own calculation. Licence CC BY 4.0. Postcode coordinates: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).

How much cold can camellias take?

Bring in before it gets colder than −10 °C (14 °F). (Natur im Garten, Austria)

Natur im Garten advises moving it to winter quarters by the end of November. The Saxon Garden Academy: light frost is fine once hardened off.

Other sources say

None of our other sources gives a figure.

We use the most cautious figure from the expert sources.

Winter quarters

Bright, no warmer than 12 °C (54 °F) (Saxon Garden Academy)

No warmer than 12 °C (54 °F) until the first flowers open, then no warmer than 15 °C (59 °F).

Back outside

We don’t have a sourced value for this yet.

Questions and answers

When should camellias come inside?

Natur im Garten, Austria: bring in before it gets colder than −10 °C (14 °F). On average for Germany it gets that cold from 15 January, and not before 12 December in 9 out of 10 years.

How much cold can camellias take?

Natur im Garten, Austria: bring in before it gets colder than −10 °C (14 °F). Natur im Garten advises moving it to winter quarters by the end of November. The Saxon Garden Academy: light frost is fine once hardened off.

How do you overwinter camellias?

Bright, no warmer than 12 °C (54 °F) (Saxon Garden Academy).

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Sources

Show 5 sources
  1. „Natur im Garten“ (Land Niederösterreich): Überwinterung von Kübelpflanzen (Gemeindezeitungsvorlage, Februar 2021)
  2. Sächsische Gartenakademie (LfULG), Ute Kroll: Überwinterung von Kübelpflanzen (Stand Februar 2009)
  3. Deutscher Wetterdienst, Climate Data Center: Tageswerte (Klima) der Stationen, historisch
  4. Deutscher Wetterdienst: Vorgaben für die Gestaltung des DWD-Quellenvermerks
  5. GeoNames: Postal Code Dataset (DE.zip)

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